Sketches of Sermons Genesis 3:17 And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying… I. THE CRIME PROVED. The judge condemns the criminal's conduct in several particulars. 1. His listening and yielding to temptation. 2. His neglect of God's Word. 3. His open, positive transgression of a known law. II. THE SENTENCE PRONOUNCED. 1. Deprivation of all the fruits and pleasures of Eden. 2. Toil. 3. Disappointment. 4. Sorrow. 5. Increasing infirmity. 6. Death. 7. Justice is tempered with mercy.Let the subject teach us — 1. A lesson of humility. We are the degenerate children of such a parent. 2. A lesson of caution. (1) Mark the process of falling. Satan presents some suitable object. We appear, desire, covet, throw off restraint, and transgress, in intention, and in fact. (2) Mark the danger of falling. Our first parents fell from their paradisiacal state, and by a small temptation. Wherefore, "watch," etc. (Matthew 26:41). (3) For, mark the consequences of falling. All the evils we feel or fear. 3. A lesson of encouragement. Respited, we may recover our Eden, by means of "the second Adam, the Lord from heaven." Contrast — the first involving himself and us in guilt, pollution, and misery — the second the reverse of this (Romans 5:12-21). (Sketches of Sermons.) Parallel Verses KJV: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; |
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